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WindWorks of Washington's Debut Concert:

Founded by Retired US Navy Band Clarinetist/Conductor Russell V. Gross Jr. : this Professional "Super Band" composed of top members of the Washington, D.C. Military Bands - Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Bands, National Symphony members both active, and retired, as well as special invited guests to join this amazing Professional Concert Band. The players were invited from all over the USA to be in this, as well as most were 1st Chair All State Band in High School. The group was founded by Retired US Navy Band Clarinetist/Director Russell V. Gross Jr.

Guest Director for this piece is Dr. Jeffrey S. Doebler

JESSE AYERS is winner of the 2011 American Prize for Orchestral Composition, double-finalist for the 2013 American Prize for Band Composition, co-winner of the 2011 Dayton Ballet New Music for New Dance competition, a 2010 recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and numerous awards from ASCAP. His music has been performed in Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and over 100 U.S. cities. His music has been selected on two occasions by the International Society for Contemporary Music to represent the United States at the prestigious World Music Days festival. He is best known for his orchestral and symphonic band surround-sound concert stories that explore the intersection of the spiritual and natural worlds and the redemptive intervention of a very real God in human affairs.

But there is also a fun-loving side to the music of this split-personality composer, heard in playful pieces like Flashbax, Waldstein Express, Dance of the Mountain Raindrops, and The Dancing King, music filled with energy, rhythmic syncopations, bright, cheerful harmonies, and which are meant to be just plain fun.


Recording/Video produced by David Blumberg www.MyTempoMusic.com